Motivational Quotes

Business

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Business

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.